At 04:29a -0500 02/23/00, JOrendorff@ixl.com didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
> > Well, I am simply a member of the 'web community' and am not a member
> > of any WG, nor am I even remotely associated with MS. So here is my
> > comment: Inline styles are required for any boilerplate text which
> > needs to be self contained; SSIs are a prime example.
> > How can you preserve an SSI's style without a style attribute?
>
>You can't defend a kludge by saying "this other kludge depends on it".
>And SSI is the mother of all kludges.
It was only an example for illustration purposes. If you prefer, let's
just say that we want a <DIV> to be completely independent of any other
parts of the page. The <DIV> needs its own style "sheet". How can you
do it without a style attribute?
>If you use SSI for headers, footers, etc. then you'll find XSLT 1.0
>a *lot* more flexible. (XSLT is very new, though; SSI implementations
>are everywhere. XSLT may also be slower.)
I'll take a look when I get a chance.
-Walter